The New Faces of Dreams and Mysteries (2021)

It’s December 2020, more than nine months of community quarantine in the Philippines. The idea of nothingness is actual and symbolic. With imposed restrictions in the physical world, how can we tell our personal and collective stories of living under the “longest COVID-19 lockdown in the world”? Confined at home, physical and non-physical boundaries are magnified as the filmmaker attempts to articulate existence through floating in time and space.

In times of necessary physical distancing, ten couples from the filmmaker’s hometown allow the cameras into their homes not to disturb but capture any delicate exchange.

Filming in a Time of Uncertainty is a short documentary film that follows a small team of filmmakers, who are based in the region in Mindanao, as they struggle to shoot a film amidst the trying times of the pandemic. And how they were able to comply with the community's minimum health guidelines, while observing the basic health care, in spite of the intricacies of the film industry’s standard health protocols.

A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.

As the global pandemic affects more than half the world, the Family Chan tries to cope with the seemingly permanent quarantine and the claustrophobic circumstance of being together.

A woman with falling hair, anxious about her online work, a child unable to leave her room in a power outage, and a yoga buff with body issues, all encounter an unseen terror while alone in their urban middle-class homes during the nationwide quarantine.

A Manobo tribe flees from fear only to find themselves in another dreadful situation: a lockdown due to the pandemic.

In a period beset by a plague, the visionary’s portal to his soul has been thwarted by the four corners of his abode. With imagination as the only detour, the drifting of thoughts is inevitable. Amidst the overcast, the curtain opens to the apparent truth – truth that no frame can impede a visionary.

In transit, Carlo reminisces the blissful memories of his beloved mother, Joy, who died a few months ago while the country was in lockdown facing a worldwide pandemic. As he returns to his hometown Pampanga to reunite with his family, he will be facing a first birthday without his mother.

A filmmaker’s reflection about his life during the pandemic, as "the flames are climbing up the wall."

A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).

An exploration of how we use the masks as our new faces in these trying times. It shows a perspective of what life is like during the pandemic through poetry, metaphor, movements, and the use of painted masks.

The night before the lockdown, while reviewing some unused footages from my latest film project (Hinulid), a small box from an anonymous sender arrives. The box contains a Bikol translation of the Tagalog long poem, Ibong Adarna, and an egg.

ロバート・ネビルは優れた科学者だが、彼でさえ、その恐ろしいウイルスを食い止めるすべを知らなかった。それは誰にも封じることができず、治すこともかなわず、しかも、人間が作り出したウイルスだった。なぜか免疫があったネビルは、荒れ果てたニューヨークで――あるいは世界で――ただ１人生き残っている。この３年間、彼は毎日几帳面に無線でメッセージを流し続け、必死にほかの生存者を捜してきた。だが、確かに彼は"１人"ではなかった。ウイルスに侵され、変異した人間たちが闇に潜み、彼を見つめていたのだ。ネビルを駆りたてているのは唯一残った使命、それは、彼自身の免疫のある血液を使ってウイルスの影響を改善する方法を見つけること。しかし、彼には圧倒的多数の敵が迫り、時間は刻々となくなっていく...。

孤児院で育ったラウラ（ベレン・ルエダ）は、長らく閉鎖されていたその孤児院を買い取り、障害を持つ子どもたちのホームとして再建しようと夫のカルロス（フェルナンド・カヨ）、息子のシモン（ロジェール・プリンセプ）とともに移り住んでいた。だが、シモンは遊び相手のいない寂しさから空想上の友だちを作って遊ぶようになり、その姿にラウラは不安を覚える。そして入園希望者を集めたパーティーの日、シモンはこつ然と姿を消してしまい……。

19世紀末、ロンドン。医師トリーブスは、街の見世物小屋で象人間と呼ばれていたジョン・メリックに出会う。研究のために彼を病院で生活させるが、やがてメリックの知性と純粋な心に触れ、人間らしい交流が生まれる。＜19世紀末に実在した奇型の青年の数奇な運命と、彼をとりまく人々との交流を描き世界的に大ヒットした不朽の名作。鬼才デイヴィッド・リンチは本作の成功で一躍脚光を浴びた。出演には、本作で英国アカデミー賞主演男優賞に輝いたジョン・ハート、アンソニー・ホプキンス、サー・ジョン・ギールグッドら＞

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.

ヒッチコックの名作『ダイヤルMを廻せ!』を完全リメイク。ブルックリンの古いロフトで愛し合うエミリーと若き画家。彼女は実業家の夫を持つ人妻だった……。不倫の絡んだ完全犯罪サスペンス。

それは多くの人々にとって多くのことでした：若者の野心、勇気、慢に満ちたハンサムな戦士王は、小さな軍隊を巨大なペルシャ軍に導きました...息子は必死に厳しい父親の承認を求めて、 戦い、そしてそれに対する彼の忠誠心と彼の母親への愛の間で苦労しました...戦いに決して負けず、彼の兵士を既知の世界の果てまで押し付けた冷酷な征服者...夢、偉業、運命が残された幻想家 歴史上の彼らのマークは、今日の世界を形作るのに役立ちます。 彼はそれ以上でした。 彼はアレキサンダー大王でした。